Hire robotics engineers in the UK
Robotics Jobs is the UK board for people who build machines that move: perception and motion-planning engineers, controls and mechatronics specialists, and the software teams that integrate them. Advertise a role to them directly and pay a fixed price once.
- What it costs
- From £99 for a 30-day listing. Pay once — no subscription, no recruiter fee, no percentage of salary.
- How fast it goes live
- One working day. A person reads every advert before it publishes, usually within a couple of hours.
- Who reads it
- Robotics software and perception engineers, controls and embedded people, mechatronics and integration specialists — from warehouse automation to surgical and field robots. Most are employed and read this board to see who is building hardware that ships.
- What it is not
- A CV database you rent, or an agency taking a fee on the hire. You post the role; candidates come to you.
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There are three ways to fill a Robotics role. We are honest about being one of them.
Robotics hiring sits between mechanical, electronic and software disciplines, and a route that only reaches one of them finds the wrong people. Here is the short version, including where a board is the wrong tool.
A specialist board
You are hereFixed, from £99 per role
You know roughly who you want, the salary is competitive, and you want the applications to land in your own inbox or ATS.
You need someone headhunted out of a named competitor, or the role is confidential.
A generalist platform
Per-click or per-slot, unbounded
Volume roles where reach matters more than fit, and hiring for functions outside engineering at the same time.
Perception and controls roles. "Robotics" on a generalist site returns hobbyists and generic software developers, and the engineer who has commissioned a real robot on a real site is one CV in many.
A recruitment agency
Typically 15–25% of first-year salary
Chief engineers and heads of autonomy, and any search for a specific background — a particular manipulator, a particular autonomy stack — where people are approached rather than advertised to.
Roles you can attract directly. On a £90k salary the fee is most of a hiring budget.
Who actually reads this board
A smaller audience than a generalist site, and one that knows the difference between a demo and a deployment. People arrive here because they build robots for a living and want to see who is hiring for ROS, SLAM, motion planning and controls this month — not because a feed put a job in front of them.
Who we have on the board
Each one opens the live roles for it on Robotics Jobs.
Seniority mix of live roles
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Graduate and entry 9%
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Junior 5%
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Mid-level 28%
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Senior and staff 45%
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Lead and principal 11%
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Head of and director 3%
Where they are
Location pages carry the local salary picture and the companies hiring there.
How the live roles are worked
How the advert reaches them
- Search and Google Jobs
- Every listing is structured for Google Jobs and indexed on the board, so it keeps working for the whole run.
- Saved alerts
- Candidates subscribe to a specialism, a salary floor and a location. Matching roles email out as they publish.
- The weekly digest
- One email, curated, read by people who are not actively applying yet — which is where most senior candidates sit.
- The rest of the network
- Add any of the other fifteen boards for +£75 each. Only worth it where the field genuinely overlaps.
Hiring now
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Automation Experts Ltd 4 open roles
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Autodiscovery 1 open role
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Belcan 1 open role
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ECM Selection 1 open role
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Logistex 1 open role
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University of Southampton 1 open role
Companies with at least one active listing on Robotics Jobs.
What Robotics roles pay in the UK
Built from the salaries stated in live adverts on this board, not a survey — the range employers are advertising, and its midpoint.
Robotics pay turns on how close the role is to hardware that ships and on whether the company has customers or a roadmap. An advert that names the band and says which — commissioning on site, or research in the lab — draws the engineers who have done that work; one that hides the number reads as a startup still deciding.
All UK Robotics salary benchmarks, coming soon
| Role | Midpoint | Top salary |
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Controls Engineer
Controls Engineer jobs on Robotics Jobs
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£53k | £70k |
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Industrial Automation Engineer
Industrial Automation Engineer jobs on Robotics Jobs
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£53k | £70k |
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Mechatronics Engineer
Mechatronics Engineer jobs on Robotics Jobs
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£48k | £62k |
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Robotics Engineer
Robotics Engineer jobs on Robotics Jobs
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£63k | £94k |
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Robotics Software Engineer
Robotics Software Engineer jobs on Robotics Jobs
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£60k | £99k |
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Autonomous Vehicle Engineer
Autonomous Vehicle Engineer jobs on Robotics Jobs
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Motion Planning Engineer
Motion Planning Engineer jobs on Robotics Jobs
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Robotics AI Engineer
Robotics AI Engineer jobs on Robotics Jobs
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From live adverts on this board · rows link to the role
From £99 a role. Paid once.
Three tiers and three durations, priced up front. Extra boards are +£75 each and only worth adding where the field overlaps — we will tell you when it does not.
In every listing, including the cheapest one
- A person reviews the advert before it publishes
- Structured for Google Jobs and indexed on the board
- Emailed to matching alert subscribers
- Applications to your inbox or straight into your ATS
- Live for 30 days, extendable
- No subscription and no auto-renewal
If it does not perform
Every listing carries an application benchmark set from the role itself — pay, contract type, working pattern. Come in under it and we extend the run and re-promote the role at no charge. It is in the terms, not a goodwill gesture.
Hiring several roles, or running an agency desk?
Bundles across roles and boards, and automatic ingestion from your ATS or a feed so nothing is re-keyed.
Works with your ATS
Send applications straight into it, or let us pull your open roles from it — and send candidates straight back.
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Ashby
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Greenhouse
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Workable
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Personio
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BambooHR
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Rippling
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Workday
Not listed? We can usually build a connector in about a week — tell us about your ATS.
Put the role in front of people who build machines that move.
Paste a link or write it here. Nothing is charged until you publish, and a person reads it before it goes live.